Prof.
Nili Cohen

The
BennoGitter Chair in
Comparative Contract Law The Buchmann Faculty of
Law,Tel-Aviv
University

Nili Cohen, member of the Israeli Academy of
Science and Humanities, received her LL.B. magna cum laude, LL.M., summa cum
laude, and Ph. D. from TAU. Her research interests are contracts, torts,
restitution, comparative law and law and literature. She is the author of Interference
with Contractual Relations,Inducing Breach of Contract and
co-author of Contracts III and III. She edited Comparative
Remedies for Breach of Contract and contributed a chapter to the book.
She is the recipient of Sussman Prize (twice), Zeltner Prize, the Rector Prize
for Excellence in Teaching (twice), the Minkoff
Prize for Excellence in Law. She is the incumbent of the BennoGitter Chair in Comparative Contract Law and the
director of the Beverly and Raymond Sackler Fund
for Human Rights in Private Law. She served as Rector of Tel-Aviv University
(1997-2001).

Nili Cohen was awarded an Honorary Degree at
the University of Buenos Aires in 1998. She was a member of the Committee of
the Codification of Israeli Law. In 1999 she was elected Associate Member of
the International Academy for Comparative Law and a member of the American
Law Institute. Since 2000 she is a member of the Academic Council of Venice
International University.